“Apple now names OS X after California locations, and the El Capitan name has more meaning than what it seems on the surface,” Roman Loyola reports for Macworld. “The El Capitan ‘location’ is a 3000-foot monolith of granite found within Yosemite National Park.”
“As Apple puts it, OS X El Capitan is about ‘refining the experience and improving performance’ of OS X,” Loyola reports. “If you consider that OS X 10.11 is mostly designed to tweak, fix, and add minor features to OS X Yosemite (version 10.10), then the name of OS X 10.11 makes sense.”
Loyola reports, “Apple says that El Capitan will be available on September 30.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Running the OS X 10.11. El Capitan Gold Master seed has made every Mac we’ve installed it on snappier with Metal for Mac significantly improving graphics performance across the board. It’s rock solid with zero Wi-Fi issues so far, too!
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Apple announces OS X El Capitan with refined experience and improved performance – June 8, 2015
There seems to be a lot of little UI bugs here and there. And what’s up with the spinning pizza of death?? It now looks like a spinning piece of construction paper a bunch of 3rd graders used crayons to color. Contrast is down…some more.
Agreed. For a GM candidate I’m seeing a lot of oddities that I would expect to be quashed at this stage. Granted, I’m not having a lot of issues and it feels very stable, but I would warn anyone from thinking this is a final release.
There is no question at this point that Apple’s insistence on cranking out new versions of OS X every 12 months means less polish and more bugs. It looks like Apple is now viewing OS X as a disposable commodity—and that ain’t good.
Everything?
Since when have we had a 10.x.0 release where we know everything and have everything fixed?
It’s the El Fappening! El Fapitan!
I’m running the Golden Master of El Capitan right now. Way more stable than Yosemite ever was. Zero kernel panics so far!
Glad to here that, but …
I’ll wait until 10.11.2 or .3
Here that!
Hey Bo, go peep in the dictionary.
I sure hope Photos sees major improvements…am I the only one who HATES it? I’m still using iPhoto. I
Unfortunately only minor improvements, such as extensions for third party software and ability to sort albums in different ways.
Maybe Apple will add some functionality to Photos in a future 10.11.x update but more substantial improvements are likely to take at least 3-4 years if iWorks fate is any indication…
Personally I’m going to use iPhoto as long as possible, if future OS X version breaks it I’m not going update until I have a reliable third party solution. In the long run I might stop using all Apple software apart from OS X and Safari because of dumping down of functionality and poor backwards compatibility.
Just a few weeks ago I tried the latest developer version. Very bad. Apps were crashing left and right.. I’m going to wait for this version to be out for at least 3 months so they can squash the showstoppers.
nikatomuirhead, you are smart to wait for at least a month with any major OS update. I would wait until at least 10.11.1 or 10.11.2 before taking the jump.
Keep in mind that the current apps you are running with the beta have not been updated for El Capitan, so it should be no surprise that you encountered conflicts. That is why it’s called a BETA.
It’s one thing for the OS to get cleaned up. It’s something else completely for the apps you use to be updated specifically for El Capitan. I make it a policy never to upgrade my OS until I know specifically that my apps are compliant. You are asking for trouble otherwise.
My wife, a graphic and textile designer, is always at least one major OS update release behind, and for good reason. Until Adobe states with confidence that their suite is compliant, until her very expensive pro-level Photoshop plug-ins are a well, and until the drivers for her $40K Konica-Minolta color printer are up-to-date, she has to sit tight with what she’s running.
Let’s admit it: this is a site full of overly eager, I-gotta-download-it-immediately, kernel-panics-be-damned fanboys. It’s the way you are. But a lot of readers whose livelihoods depend on not having their work interrupted by crashes, lost files and lost time can’t be like that. We’ll sit back and wait.
And that’s okay. It really is. It will be nice when I can make the jump, but I’m in no rush.
There’s a lesson here, folks.
I’ve been running it for a couple of months and have had very few app crashes. Although I don’t use MS Office (other than Excel) and use mainly open source software (other than some high end math physics programs).
I’m using El Cap GM on a 2010 MacBook Air, nothing major to report. Runs swimmingly thank you 🙂
Has anyone tried running Aperture on the El Capitan GM?
Like the posters above, I don’t think Photos is ready for prime time, yet, (don’t get me started on how I think Light Room is evil).
If Aperture doesn’t run on 10.11, I’ll be sticking with Yosemite until Photos matures. A lot.